Jean-Claude Van Damme's beer adverts for UK television

[Paul L Scholar of Sleaze Find all posts View Profile Close Paul L]

I believe these Coors beer ads starring JCVD have been produced for UK television and haven't been shown elsewhere. Some people might get a kick out of them. 'Kick', geddit?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=OdHocrK59bo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzlED...feature=relmfu

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Oops. One of the ads had already been posted in the Coors thread by Nolando. Sorry, Nolando; I didn't know the ads had been posted in that older thread. They've only just started appearing on UK television in the last week or two. I assume the broadcast of the ads has been scheduled to coincide with the second series of JEAN-CLAUDE VAN DAMME: BEHIND CLOSED DOORS, which started on British telly the other week.

[Mark Tolch Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Mark Tolch]

Can we turn this into the "Holy shit, JCVD is in BREAKIN'? thread?

[Mike T Guest Find all posts View Profile Close Mike T]

I watched these yesterday -- they were pretty damn fuuny, and show that JCVD isn't above poking some fun at himself. The whole "tight jeans" routine was hilarious...

[Mark Tolch Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Mark Tolch]

He should be able to...did you know that he was in BREAKIN'? :)

[Paul L Scholar of Sleaze Find all posts View Profile Close Paul L]

I watched these yesterday -- they were pretty damn fuuny, and show that JCVD isn't above poking some fun at himself. The whole "tight jeans" routine was hilarious...

Yep, these days it seems that he's not above having a laugh at his own expense and doesn't take himself too seriously.

Has the documentary JEAN-CLAUDE VAN DAMME: BEHIND CLOSED DOORS been shown anywhere outside the UK? It shows a real change in his attitudes towards his work, with Van Damme sometimes apologetic for the arrogance he showed early in his career.

I was talking to my mother earlier in the week, and she and my father had watched either IN HELL or DEATH WARRANT on television. (I'm not sure which, because she couldn't tell me much about the film other than the fact that it was set in a prison.) My mother said that she likes Van Damme now but 'hated him' in the 1980s and 1990s, especially when, I quote, 'he used to get his fat legs out and dance'. I guess she was talking about BREAKIN' then :D

I hope she wasn't talking about this clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2WKS...eature=related (It's been seen before, but it's darned funny.)

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OK, after thinking about Nowhere To Run far more than I should have and trying to catch up on a few JCVD movies I've missed - is Black Eagle worth tracking down? I've never seen it. It's got Sho Kosugi in it so it probably has to be worth it, right?

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I saw it in the theatre at a time when I was cocoa for Kosugi and freaking out over Van Damme. I remember being very unimpressed. Take that with a grain of salt, i think that i was really young when it came out.

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The only thing I can remember about about Black Eagle is that I thought it was awful. Even though I (temporarily) went through the whole "ninja" thing as a kid in the eighties, Kosugi never did anything for me with his huge hair and bad diction/delivery. And it took Van Damme getting a bit older before I really warmed to him. But take into consideration this: Kickboxer and Blood Sport came out around the same era as Eagle, and I can remember bits of them having not seen them since...but have pretty much forgotten the film in question.

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OK, so I'll snag it if I can find it cheap.

[Mark Tolch Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Mark Tolch]

Yeah, i think that Bloodsport was out right before that one. And I remember tons of parts of Bloodsport. I remember one thing from Black Eagle, and that's Van Damme with the throwing knives, doing the splits on the boat.

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I remember one thing from Black Eagle, and that's Van Damme with the throwing knives, doing the splits on the boat.

Funny you should mention that! As that's ALL* I remember of the film at all! Hahaha!

*apart from the fact that Donkey Cock Kosugi was in it as well.